Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-02
BURDEN WILL GET 1T.

1t we were going to make q square guess
we would say that Douglass will have Mr..
Gould's Wichita g. Cedarvale railroad by
the 4ih day of July We presume our
friends at Douglass will allow us to con-
graduate them.-ElDorado Republican.
The Wichita EAGLE copies the above
with the caption Douglass Will Get 1t"
This road of all the roads projected in
Kansas has the strongest backing, and
comes before the people with the fairest
proposition, asking only six months or a
little over to complete the line from the
time the subsidies are voted How does
that compare with Winfeld's so called
Chicago 81 Alton scheme, asking two years
to complete it in, yet the good
people of Winfield ask us to
drop the Wichita road and take up such a
bare faced fraud Now as to the backing
of the Wichita s. Cedarvale road. Marsh
Murdoch has been the life of it from its
first inception. Mr.. Gould has given Mr..
Murdoch every assurance that he will
build the road Mr. Richards, a director.
is general manager and vice president of
the Fort Scott (Gould) road. MIR. Kos.
Harris, director, is assistant attorney of
the Fort Scott railroad Messrs. Oliver,
Levy and Niederlander, the remainder of
the Wichita directors, are amongst her
leading citiZens-a combination of names
that have made Wichita what she
is today Now what is this w. c s. s.
E. railroad! Simply this: 1t will be
the main line of the D. NJ. & A; this
we have known for long time. Now
what will it do for the country it passes
through? 1t will give competing line
"a system that knows no compromise
with the Santa Fe: it will reach the
cheap lumber and fuel region of the Ar
kansas country, giving the territory trav-
ersed southern outlet for its produce, but
above all giving us wholesale market at
Wichita. 1t is an established fact that all
classes Of goods can be purchased in Wich-
ita as cheaply as in Kansas City. What
does that mean to the farmer? 1t means
that every barrel of salt, every pound
of sugar or coffee you buy, all farm
Der, in fact any commodity
you may purchase, can he laid at your trad
Ing point at price below what you now
from Wichita than from Kansas City.
Winfield merchants buy large portion of
their groceries in Wichita
carving in this township, but in Richland
there is a local strife. Now the farmers OF
Richland. allow us to ask. will you not in
ve>tigate this matter thoroughly? You are
aware that some of the very men who now
81 bitterly oppose this road were rs loud in
its praise when they thought their town
would get it. Now as TO the stories started by
Wintield-weil We are simply disguised
with the bosses of that town. u I'd are salts
fed that the farmers of Richland know
Winfield rs wei: rs we do or even better.
1t is not long since the Courier called you
imbeciles because you refused to vote
township aid to road that had already St.
cured county aid Who else but the same
editors of The same Courier Now. as TO
figures Richland will get some eight and
one half miles of road for SIG 900, less than
$4,000 per mile TIE road will pass
through three. probably four school dis
tric:s; it will be a positive benefit to your
township if a train is never run over the
track.
Remember the tax goes on fOrever-the
interest ceases To those who say that is
always the cry. the reply is: Richland Sc
cures eight and half miles of road for
about one half the amount OF bonds that
many townships issue for five or six miles
of road This road will make New Salem
and Floral better markets even though 1t
does not reach them. The road can not go
to every town: it is an air line. Do not let
selfish interest bias your mind. Invcsti-
gate this matter thoroughly; study the
figures We have no fear of the result.
You will vote for the bonds on next Tues
day, March Burden Eagle